Re:Poll: Is the leetcode grind necessary to land a high payi...
by tzs on Thursday January 27, 2022 @09:34AM
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Those polls also show that they strongly favor free IDs that are easy to obtain.
Almost no one opposed the idea of voter ID if it is free and easy for everyone who is eligible to vote to obtain such ID.
It's when shenanigans like those in North Carolina described in footnote 360 in this report [1] take place that it is a problem. The government knew that 25% of black voters lacked DMV-issued photo ID but the law provided that all government issued IDs would work (even expired ones), so that was fine. Then with race data in hand, the legislature amended the law to exclude most of those non-DMV IDs that black voters had, and retain the non-DMV IDs that white people were likely to have.
Almost no one opposed the idea of voter ID if it is free and easy for everyone who is eligible to vote to obtain such ID.
It's when shenanigans like those in North Carolina described in footnote 360 in this report [1] take place that it is a problem. The government knew that 25% of black voters lacked DMV-issued photo ID but the law provided that all government issued IDs would work (even expired ones), so that was fine. Then with race data in hand, the legislature amended the law to exclude most of those non-DMV IDs that black voters had, and retain the non-DMV IDs that white people were likely to have.
[1] https://www.usccr.gov/files/pubs/2018/Minority_Voting_Access...